Ernst Schmoeckel

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Ernst Schmoeckel (born June 7, 1900 in Breslau ; † after 1940) was a German bank director and president of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry (IHK) in Hirschberg .

Training and military service

As the son of the secret councilor Hugo Schmoeckel and his wife Anna von Felgenhauer, he attended the Elisabeth-Gymnasium in Breslau from April 1906 to October 1909 . Then he switched to the humanistic grammar school in Hirschberg, where he passed his Abitur in June 1918. In the same month he was drafted into military service as a flag junior for the foot artillery regiment No. 6 in Breslau.

Border protection and banking activities

After attending the Fahnenjunkerschule in Jüterbog , he served from January to August 1919 for the border guards in Silesia and the province of Posen . When he enrolled in law at the university in Berlin at the end of November 1918, he had to interrupt his studies due to his renewed service with the border guard. On October 1, 1919, he began an apprenticeship at the Darmstädter Bank in its branch in Jelenia Góra (Hirschberg). In 1923, the bank gave him power of attorney. In 1928 he was employed for several months in the Berlin headquarters of the credit bureau of the Darmstädter Bank.

Bank director, office in the NSDAP and president of the Chamber of Commerce

After his return to Hirschberg, he received power of attorney for the branch in the same year . He was appointed deputy director in 1930. In 1932 he became a member of the NSDAP . He was appointed bank director in 1933. After the Darmstädter Bank was taken over by the Dresdner Bank , he continued to manage its branch in Hirschberg. In 1934 he was appointed district economic advisor to the NSDAP for the Hirschberg district. His appointment as a state labor judge followed.

In 1935 he became president of the Hirschberg Chamber of Commerce and Industry. In this function he was also a member of the Advisory Board of the Silesian Chamber of Commerce . He was also active on the administrative board of the State Planning Community of Silesia. He took the position of deputy chairman on the supervisory board of Schlesische Zellwolle AG.

Activity in Poland

In 1940 he became the second director of the Dresdner Bank in their representation in Katowice , which was headed by Max Bardroff . His job there was to handle the affairs of large loans. Furthermore, he was entrusted with the connection to the head of the main trust center East (HTO) in Katowice Arthur Jakob , who was also employed there as a district economic advisor .

Schmoeckel performed another task as a member of the district credit committee of the Reich Economic Aid for Upper Silesia in Katowice. He was supposed to represent the interests of the Dresdner Bank in the granting of large loans to companies that were under the supervision of the HTO. However, the influence of Deutsche Bank was so great that Dresdner Bank was often left behind. A complaint to Max Winkler about this preference for Deutsche Bank was unsuccessful. The competence of the granting of the credits would lie solely with the representation of the HTO in Katowice.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Herrmann AL Degener , Who is it ?, Xth edition, Berlin 1935, p. 1419.
  2. ↑ Hermann Teschewar: Manual of the structure of trade and industry. Volume III, Leipzig 1937, p. 265.
  3. ↑ Hermann Teschewar: Manual of the structure of trade and industry. Volume III, Leipzig 1937, p. 266.
  4. ↑ Harald Wixforth: The Dresdner Bank in the Third Reich . Volume III, Munich 2006, p. 441.
  5. ↑ Harald Wixforth: The Dresdner Bank in the Third Reich . Volume III, Munich 2006, p. 445.
personal data
SURNAME Schmoeckel, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German bank director and president of the Hirschberg Chamber of Commerce and Industry
DATE OF BIRTH June 7, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH after 1940